Halo 3 street date broken in Europe

A Norwegian game shop has broken the street date for Halo 3, selling copies …

It seems that games shipped out prior to release are almost always going to be involved in some kind of "broken street date" scandal. Remember the Bioshock affair, which sent thousands of gamers around the country to the local Toys 'R Us, hoping to nab an early copy? Well, now the same thing has happened in Europe with another big Xbox 360 release.

A Norwegian game shop has reportedly broken the street date for the highly anticipated Halo 3, which is set to be released on September 25. MaxConsole received a picture of a customer holding the title and a display unit set up at a store called "Expert" on Friday.

While this is thus far an isolated case, the original author notes that previous street date breaks have "have resulted in competitors following suit"—something we've discussed before. One can only imagine the swarm of consumers a store in the heart of the U.S. would get if a similar thing happened.